Critically acclaimed, Grammy®-nominated multi-platinum artist Tove Lo will release her long-awaited second album LADY WOOD on October 28th via Polydor Records. LADY WOOD will include cool girl the first new single to drop from Tove Lo. After less than two weeks since its release, cool girl has reached 14,000,000 streams on Spotify and is approaching Top 20 on the Global Chart.
Premiering worldwide today is the video for cool girl. The clip was shot on location in Los Angeles by Swedish director Tim Erem (credits: Tove Lo’s Moments; Nick Jonas’ Close featuring Tove Lo; Rihanna’s “Work” featuring Drake; Major Lazer’s “Lean On” with DJ Snake featuring MØ; and more). cool girl is the lead video of a larger short film project for Fairy Dust, chapter one of LADY WOOD(see more info below).
LADY WOOD is the long-awaited successor to Tove Lo’s landmark debut album of 2014, the RIAA platinum Queen Of The Clouds. The album included Habits (Stay High), the career-defining 5x-platinum global #1 hit that introduced her to U.S. and UK audiences, and has surpassed 1 billion Spotify streams; and the double-platinum follow-up, Talking Body (#3 on Billboard Pop Airplay, #12 on the Hot 100). In addition to Close, Tove Lo has also been the featured artist on tracks by fellow Island artist Coldplay (Fun), Years & Years (Desire), Broods (Freak Of Nature), Flume (Say It), and Alesso (Heroes).
Similar to Queen Of The Clouds, whose tracks were broken into three intimate chapters (‘The Sex,’ ‘The Love,’ ‘The Pain’) – LADY WOOD will be divided into two chapters: Fairy Dust and Fire Fade. Tove Lo describes them as “the emotional curves I go through when I’m chasing any kind of rush.”
Fairy Dust refers to anticipation, as in the seductive slow-jam Influence (featuring rapper Wiz Khalifa), and the prowling title track, Lady Wood. Tove Lo compares that anticipation to “when the adrenaline starts to kick in. It gives you butterflies. It’s that tingling sensation of sex.” Fire Fade captures the moments when that thrill starts to wear off, as in the swelling, unguarded Keep It Simple and the cocksure WTF Love Is. As she said: ‘You feel a little bit uneasy.
‘And you really want to chase that first feeling again.’
LADY WOOD tracklist:
1. “Fairy Dust” (Chapter I)
2. “Influence”
3. “Lady Wood”
4. “True Disaster”
5. “cool girl”
6. “Vibes”
7. “Fire Fade” (Chapter II)
8. “Don’t Talk About It”
9. “Imaginary Friend”
10. “Keep It Simple”
11. “Flashes”
12. “WTF Love Is”
Tove Lo will be supporting Maroon 5 on their six week, 26-city tour of the U.S. and Canada. For exact tour dates checkout her website.